Academic Work Experience
2022 – 2023 The Käte Hamburger Research Centre “Dis:connectivity in Processes of Globalisation” (global dis:connect) – LMU Munich - Research Fellow
2020 – 2021 4A Laboratory: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics in Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz– Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin - Research Fellow
2012 – 2013 Istanbul Aydin University – Fine Arts Faculty, Istanbul - Research Assistant
Teaching Experience
2012 – 2013 Philosophy of Art I-II, Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Fine Arts
2012 – 2013 Contemporary Art Theory, Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Fine Arts
2013 – 2015 History of Civilization I-II, Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul
2012 WiSe Visual Culture, Poznan School of Social Sciences, as a part of: Erasmus Academic Teaching Exchange Program
2016 WiSe Postkoloniale Kunstgeschichte. Postcolonial Art History, w. Prof. Bärbel Küster, Technische Universität Berlin, Faculty I- Humanities, Berlin
2019 WiSe Istanbul Biennial Excursion, w. Prof. Bärbel Küster, Zurich Universität, Institute of Art History, Zurich
2020 – 2022 Art and Anthropology, Technische Universität Berlin, Faculty I - Humanities, Art History Department
2023 Gegenwartskunst aus der Türkei: Eine Alternativgeschichte und Gesellschaftsanalyse, Zurich Universität, Kunsthistorisches Institut
Publications
Books
Transitional Territories: Confluence of Art and Anthropology in the Practices of Artists from Turkey, Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, March 2022
Editorial
2013 - HISTART’13 History of Art Conference on Politics, Identity, Ideology, Proceedings Book, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Press, Istanbul
2013 - PHILHIST’13 History of Philosophy Conference on Interactions in the History of Philosophy, Proceedings Book, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Press, Istanbul
2014 - CUI’14 International Contemporary Urban Issues Conference on Informality: Rethinking the Urban Proceedings Book, DAKAM, Istanbul
Translations
2009 - André Breton, “Sürrealist Manifestolar / Manifestoes of Surrealism”, 6 45 Publishing, Istanbul
2012 - Georges Bataille, “Mitin Yokluğu / Absence of Myth”, E-Skop Journal, Istanbul
Articles
E-skop – Art History e-Journal- 2013, “Impacts of Anthropology on Art” (in Turkish), Link
Culthist’13, Cultural History Conference on Symbols in the History of Culture and Art Proceedings Book- 2013, «On Covered Meaning: Traditional Calligraphy and Asemic Writing», Mimar Sinan University Publishing, Istanbul
Kitap-lık – Literature Journal- 2013, “Walking as a Literary Activity” (in Turkish), Yapi Kredi Publishing, Istanbul, ISSN: 1300058602
Culthist’14, Cultural History Conference Proceedings Book- 2014, “Cross-Cultural Aesthetics and Ethnographic Turn in Arts in the 20th Century”, Mimar Sinan University Publishing, Istanbul
Interactions: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Academic Research- 2014, “Gezi Park Barricades: Production of Social Space”, International Peer-reviewed Journal, Colegio de San Lorenzo, ISSN: 2423-1614
Istanbul Art News – Art Journal- 2015, “Unexpected Musical Potentials of The Cities: Interview with Nevin Aladag” (in Turkish), Istanbul
Mürekkep Baligi – Literature Journal- 2016, “On Asemic Writing” (in Turkish), Istanbul
Estudoprévio – 2019, “Collaboration and Visibility: An Anthropological Analysis of Socially Engaged Art Practice in Turkey”, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Lisboa, ISSN: 2182-4339
Shifting Patterns – Exhibition Catalogue – 2020, “Moving Memories, Memories of Materials”, Artbear Books, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, ISBN: 978-3-946957-07-2
Static bulletin: thoughts and research from global dis:connect – 2022, ‘Mapping the wounds of the world: dis:connectivities of global representation at the 12th berlin biennale’, Vol. 1, No. 2, November 2022, ISSN: 2751-1626
Static bulletin: thoughts and research from global dis:connect – 2023, ‘the question is whether there are even two modes of working?’ a conversation about cooperation between the arts and humanities with ayşe güngör and enis maci, an interview conducted by Nikolai Brandes and Anna Sophia Nübling of gd:c
(forthcoming) Journal of Transcultural Studies, Special Issue: Re-envisaging globalisation: global visual culture, transculturality, and dis:connections, 2024, “Istanbul on Display: Dis:connections in the Globalization of Contemporary Art from Turkey”
Conference Presentations And Invited Lectures
2013 Cultural History Conference on Symbols in the History of Culture and Art, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Conference Presentation « On Distorted Meaning: Traditional Calligraphy and Asemic Writing »
2013 Akademi Psikeart Workshop, Istanbul Technical University, Lecture Series: «Feminism and Contemporary Art»
2014 Cultural History Conference on Symbols, Representation, Expression in the History of Culture, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Conference Presentation: “Cross-cultural Aesthetics and Ethnographic Turn in Contemporary Art”
2014 Interactions: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Academic Research, International Peer-reviewed Journal, Colegio de San Lorenzo, International Academic Advisory Board Member Meeting, Invited Lecture
2015 Research Network Critical Transcultural Perspectives, Freie Universität Berlin, Constitutive Session Workshop
2016 “Art and Anthropology” Workshop, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Organizer, Instructor
2016 “Ethnographic Turn in Arts”, Yıldız Technical University, Faculty of Art and Design, Istanbul, Invited Lecture
2017 « Rethinking the Relation Between Contemporary Art and Anthropology » at Foundation of Anthropology, Turkey, Istanbul, Invited Lecture w. Assoc. Prof. Levent Soysal
2018 Art, Materiality and Representation Conference, Presentation on: « Collaboration and Visibility: An Anthropological Analysis of Community-Based Art Practice in Turkey » London, British Museum / SOAS/ RAI.
2018 « Confluence of Art and Anthropology » at Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece, Invited Lecture w. Assoc. Prof. Levent Soysal
2020 « Narratives in the Anthropocene Art: Interplay Between Artists and Environmental Issues in Turkey » BTU Cottbus, Fachgebiet Kunstgeschichte, Colloquium of Prof. Dr. Sylvia Claus, Invited Lecture
2020 « Roots in Resistance: Vegetal Life in the Contemporary Eco-art Practices from Turkey », 4A_Lab Seminar, KHI Florenz-Max-Planck-Institut, Invited Lecture
2022 « Forgetting the Future, Envisaging The Past », Galerie Bernau, Bernau, Introduction Talk for the Exhibition “Asynchronicity Of Now. Retracing The Present »
2022 ‘Dis:connectivity in processes of globalisation: theories, methodologies, explorations’, Annual Conference, KHK global dis:connect, LMU Munich, Invited Lecture
2023 « Istanbul on Display: Dis:connections in the Globalization of Contemporary Art from Turkey », Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Concept and Organization of the Workshop